US HISTORY
Unit 7 Guide
CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION
Chapters 12 & 13 [PATHWAYS]
THE CIVIL WAR
Confederacy
Union
Southern states leave the Union to form the south (Jefferson Davis,
President)
- Why?
Battles (from Fort Sumter to Lee’s surrender)
Improving war tools (guns, boats & cannons)
Stonewall Jackson
General Robert E. Lee
General U. S. Grant
General McClellan
Strengths / Weaknesses of the North & South
Military Strategy
Emancipation Proclamation
RECONSTRUCTION
- Freedman’s Bureau
- Goals of “Freed People”
- Circumstances of re-admittance for Southern States
- Black Codes
- 13, 14, & 15th Amendments
- Military Reconstruction Act
- Debt peonage
- Sharecropping
- Tenant Farmers
- KKK
- President Hayes & electoral college votes = southern ways
restored